The Olympia Zine Library is Housed in Last Word Books and Press, located at 211 4th Avenue East Olympia, Washington 98501. The Library is an unofficial subdivision of the Media Island nonprofit and is free and open to the general public. We offer a Zine Creation Station and an immense library of self-published zines for your browsing pleasure.

11.29.2011

We think that one of the best ways to support the zine community is by sharing information. That’s why we’ve gathered this collection of resources, including selections fromZine Worldand links to other sources. Help us keep these resources current; send updates towordofmouth@undergroundpress.org.

The Zinester’s Guide to U.S. Mail — This guide covers the various options zine publishers can use for mailing with the U.S. and internationally, including detailed information about First Class, Media Mail, Parcel Post, and Bound Printed Matter. (PDF, updated Sept. 2008)

Other Zine Review Zines – Zine World is not the definitive word on anything, so don’t just take our word for it. There are plenty of other fine publications out there to send your zines/comics for review and to scope for new zines. These are the ones we know of.

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About T-Bone

I am a left-libertarian socialist; a communitarian and syndicalist, with little time for right-libertarians, anarcho-capitalists and right or left-wing authoritarians. This blog may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

11.22.2011

"The pamphlet is a one man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive, and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be more detailed, serious and "high-brow" than is ever possible in a newspaper or in most kinds of periodicals... " - George Orwell, modern pamphleteer!

Bravo to Doug Blandy for compiling this awesome little timeline of the history and evolution of pamphlets and zine warfare. Here are some other links of interest:

Zinelibrary.net - The best collection of online .pdfs of zines around, lots of them culled and copied from our stacks here in Olympia

100s - Use of codex (leaf-form of papyrus book) comes into use in the church; allows binding all four Gospels together, all Epistles of Paul. Gentile Christians adopt the codex-form for their Scriptures to differentiate Church from Synagogue, which used scrolls.105 - Paper refined and popularized in China by Ts'ai-Lin. Invented at least two centuries earlier in China.1041 - Printing with movable type in China1151 - First papermill in Europe (Spain).1403 - First book printed with movable type in Korea1450 - Gutenberg prints first book (the Bible) with movable type in Europe.1500s - Appearance in the British Isles of inexpensive ballad literature printed on one sheet of paper and folded twice or more to make a small pamphlet.1690 - First papermill in what is now the US (Philadelphia).

1699 - The pamphlet becomes the most effective means of persuasion and
communication creating moral and political communities of readers forms a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion in Britain. (1)Chapbooks (cheap books) became a primary source of prose, religion, folktales, poems, politics and music for the so-called lower classes in the British Isles. Sold door to door or in stalls in town or city markets for pennies by chapmen. Often times chapbooks contained material borrowed (stolen) from other sources without permission. Chapbook is a term still used today to describe a small book of poetry.

1760-1791 - American revolution pamphlets; most notable being Common Sense by Thomas Paine, published in 1776

1788-1791 - The US Constitution and Bill of Rights including the First Amendment

1790 - The first United States copyright law enacted under the new U.S. Constitution. Books, maps, and charts protected.

1831 - First general revision of United States copyright law. Music added to works.

1870 - Second general revision of United States copyright
law. Works of art are now protected. The Library of Congress
centralizes copyright activities, such as deposit and registration.

1825-1880 - Pamphlets associated with western expansionism in North America1850-1865 - Emancipation and Civil War pamphlets1874 - First perfected typewriter by Remington1885 - First pop-up book (an anatomical study)Late 18th/Early 19th - Women's suffrage pamphleteering. Co-op ownership pamphlets. DIY Movement in Europe - a reaction to industrialization and Victorian bric-a-brac; sometimes referred to as the "arts and crafts movement."1900 - Industrialization, increased leisure time, and the rise of popular and mass culture1926 - Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted exclusively to publishing original stories of scientific-based fiction. This magazine featured a special letters section where readers could discuss the scientific basis of the published stories. Gernsback made a minor decision that changed the face of science fiction forever - he printed the full addresses of the letter writers so they could contact each other directly.1926-1930 Science fiction associations and discussion groups formed1930 - The Comet published by the Science Correspondence Club believed to be the first fanzine1930 - 1960 - mimeograph duplicating machine available1944 - Xerography invented1952 - World Copyright Union founded in Geneva1960s /1970s - zines characterized by a synergy between outspoken political
commentary, literary experimentation, heartfelt critiques of
rock and roll music, influence of drugs on visual communication, revolution in layout and designMid 1960s - inexpensive offset printing used to create alternative newspapers associated with the political unrest of the time

1998 - Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) is founded in Portland, OR1998 - The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed into law giving more protection to copyright owners against digital copyright infringement.2002 - Zine Librarian Zine #1 by Greg Meins is published in Portland, Or. This zine marks the first attempt to document the creation, mission, and organization of zine libraries nationally.2000s - Death and resurrection of hardcopy zinesFootnotes(1) Pamphlets were booklets consisting of a few printer's sheets, folded in various
ways so as to make various sizes and numbers of pages, and sold -- the pages
stitched together loosely, unbound and uncovered -- usually for a shilling or two.The pamphlet [George Orwell, a modern pamphleteer, has written] "is a one
man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive, and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be
more detailed, serious and "high-brow" than is ever possible in a newspaper or in
most kinds of periodicals... " (Cambridge University Press, 2002)(2) "DIY stands for: Do It Yourself and it describes an ethic and a community. The
ethic is one of not needing the assistance of a large company of producing a
service or a product. The ethic is about being able to stand on your own two feet,
its about developing your own ideas and carrying them out, without the backing
of a corporation. The community is built up of those who believe in DIY. Those
people who would rather produce their own "thing" without going and getting
help from big business. The whole idea is, that once big business is involved, that
the original creator of the "thing" is cut out of the creative process, and thus the
"thing" is tarnished. The DIY community is composed of independent publishers,
Artists, musicians, writers, artisans and thinkers." (diysearch, 2002)

11.21.2011

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